log_shipping_monitor_secondary (Transact-SQL)

Stores one monitor record per secondary database in a log shipping configuration. This table is stored in the msdb database.

The tables related to history and monitoring are also used at the primary server and the secondary servers.

Column name

Data type

Description

secondary_server

sysname

The name of the secondary instance of the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine in the log shipping configuration.

secondary_database

sysname

The name of the secondary database in the log shipping configuration.

secondary_id

uniqueidentifier

The ID for the secondary server in the log shipping configuration.

primary_server

sysname

The name of the primary instance of the SQL Server Database Engine in the log shipping configuration.

primary_database

sysname

The name of the primary database in the log shipping configuration.

restore_threshold

int

The number of minutes allowed to elapse between restore operations before an alert is generated.

threshold_alert

int

The alert to be raised when the restore threshold is exceeded.

threshold_alert_enabled

bit

Determines if restore threshold alerts are enabled. 1 = Enabled.

0 = Disabled.

last_copied_file

nvarchar(500)

The filename of the last backup file copied to the secondary server.

last_copied_date

datetime

The time and date of the last copy operation to the secondary server.

last_copied_date_utc

datetime

The time and date of the last copy operation to the secondary server, expressed in Coordinated Universal Time.

last_restored_file

nvarchar(500)

The filename of the last backup file restored to the secondary database.

last_restored_date

datetime

The time and date of the last restore operation on the secondary database.

last_restored_date_utc

datetime

The time and date of the last restore operation on the secondary database, expressed in Coordinated Universal Time.

last_restored_latency

int

The amount of time, in minutes, that elapsed between when the log backup was created on the primary and when it was restored on the secondary.

The initial value is NULL.

history_retention_period

int

The amount of time, in minutes, that log shipping history records are retained for a given secondary database before being deleted.

Remarks

In addition to being stored on the remote monitor server, and information related to a secondary server is also stored on the secondary server in its log_shipping_monitor_secondary table.